Guy Aitchison (London, OK): It's one of those moments when the peculiarities and contradictions of our current system are truly brought home. A group of peers have started
Stuart Weir (Cambridge, Democratic Audit): Death and dying are just as much human rights issues as are life and living. Yet while we have a clearly formulated right to life
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): The Ministry of Justice has announced a " major clean-up of meaningless and defunct laws from the Statute Book" All or part of 328 Acts
Opening Statements
* The rationale - Michael Wills and Anthony Barnett
* The "National Conversation" Conversation - Tony Curzon Price
* Values and Virtual Debates - Bill Thompson
* Online Engagement in
Ralf Grahn (Helsinki, Grahnlaw): The European Council was up to some grandstanding again at its spring gathering. The presidency conclusions brought us the following vision (Presidency conclusions, document 7652/08
A spat on an al-Qaida affiliated website in Egypt has revealed growing tensions between the Afghan Taliban and foreign jihadi fighters in war-torn Afghanistan. The Taliban leadership is increasingly willing
Opening Statements
* The rationale - Michael Wills and Anthony Barnett
* The "National Conversation" Conversation - Tony Curzon Price
* Values and Virtual Debates - Bill Thompson
* Online Engagement in
Opening Statements
* The rationale - Michael Wills and Anthony Barnett
* The "National Conversation" Conversation - Tony Curzon Price
* Values and Virtual Debates - Bill Thompson
* Online Engagement in
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): There have been lots of nice, or at least interested, responses to the Radio 4 discussion on 1968 in London that is repeated in abbreviated form
Opening Statements
* The rationale - Michael Wills and Anthony Barnett
* The "National Conversation" Conversation - Tony Curzon Price
* Values and Virtual Debates - Bill Thompson
* Online Engagement in
This letter, which originally appeared in the Guardian here, is a response to Henry Porter's article: "Why I told Parliament: you've failed us on liberty&
Jon Bright (London, OK): Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, a Baghdad born reporter who has been writing for the Guardian since the invasion of Iraq, is a hero of mine, the pair of
